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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DUTEE WILCOX, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND.

SHIRT-STUD.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 25,928, dated October 25, 1859.

To all 'whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DUTEE WILooX, of the city and county of Providence and State of Rhode Island, have invented a new or Improved Shirt Stud or Button; and I do hareby declare that the same is fully described and represented in the following specication and the accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is an edge view of it as closed. Fig. 2, an edge view of it as opened, Fig. 3, a section of it. Fig. et, a front view of it when opened.

In these drawings A, and B, are two disks or plates hinged together as seen at a, so that one may be turned down flatwise upon the other. Near, but just aside of its center,

' each plate A, B, is provided with a holder and may be either plain or ornamented as taste or fancy may dictate. So with respect to the plate B, it may have portions c, c, removed in order to make it lighter.

Preparatory to inserting the stud in a shirt bosom, the plates A, B, should be opened apart as shown inFig. 3. This having been done, the hook, D, should be passed into the eyelet, eyelets or button holes of the bosom after which if the plate A be turned down upon the plate, B, the hook or holder O, will pass through the eyelet or eyelets and take the position with Arespect to the hook, D, as shown in Fig. 1, and the two will coniine the stud in place. The ease with which the said article may be applied to a shirt bosom or removed therefrom renders it very useful and far superior to most other kinds of shirt studs.

I claim- The above described new or improved inode of making a shirt stud or button, viz., of the two parts or plates, A, B, and the two hooks or curved holders O, D, constructed and applied or arranged together substantially in manner and to operate as described.

DUTEE vWILCOX.

Witnesses:

R. H. EDDY, F. P. HALE, JR. 

